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Vol. 123, No. 44
CHRISTIA
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MONDAY
MAY 13, 197:
PRICE 15 CENTS
NINTH DISTRICT MINISTERS RETREAT
WHILE LAYMEN TAKE CHARGE
A partion of the more than 150 AME ministers at the Nint
sponsored by and for ministers
Alabama. (Check—see if you can recognize
Churches in
tempt made here—It proved to be a success.
The A.M.E- Church
The A.MLE. Church as an or-
ganization lays claim to many
achievements. Among them are:
1. It was the first Negro or-
ganization to own a piece of real
estate in America. In 1793 it pur-
chased the land at the corner of
6th and Lombard Sts., Philadel-
phia, Pa, on which it later
erected Bethel Church, which
stands there today, and has been
officially designated by the United
States Congress as an Historical
Shrine, Bethel Church is one of
the few pieces of property owned
by Negroes that has been so
designated.
2. It publishes the world’s
oldest Negro religious weekly,
The Christian Recorder.
3. It was the first Negro insti-
tution to promote, finance, and
administer a program of higher
education. Bishop Payne pur-
chased ‘Wilberforce University in
1863, and after that date schools
and colleges have been estab-
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h mT District wh
d Vinton R. Anderson, presidin,
only, directed by the Right Reveren
Is your pastor present?). This was the first at-
any of them—
SERRE AAO
Rev. H. A. Belin,Sr.,
Passes
Baton Rouge, La.—Rev. Henry
Allen Belin, 95, Picneer A.M.E.
Minister and Father of Dr. H, A.
Belin, Jr., Sec.-reas. A.M.E. S. Ss
Union Died here Sunday May
19, 1974.
Funeral arrangements were in-
complete at press time.
” Rey. Belin Sr., was in the ac-
tive AME Ministry for sixty-
five years. Served for more than
fifteen years as Presiding Elder
in this State.
°
Dr. Roberts ‘‘Stood
Tall”—In Pittsburgh!
By Dr. J. W. Yancy, Il
The Roving Editor, Waco, Texas
The Third Episcopal District
(Ohio-West Pennsylvania-West Va.)
held their Mid-Winter Convocation,
in Pittsburgh, Pa., March 28-29. The
Host church was “Bethel” ’with the
DR. B, S. ROBERTS
Dr.
very affluent pastor,
Arterberry as host.
Mother Lois Bearden,
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Rufus
° attended a retreat here in Alabama
g bishop of AME
treat,
Montgomery, Alabama — The
laymen of the African Methodist
Episcopal Church, Ninth District,
embracing the state of Alabama,
observed lay:nen’s day with wor-
ship services and program fea-
tures in most of their churches
Sunday, March 31.
It was a new day for AME’s
here in the grand “Ole Ninth,”
instituted by Bishop Vinton R.
Anderson, presiding prelate over
the Episcopal diocese. He called
all presiding elders and pastors
in the district to a three days re-
March 29-31 which left
church operations in the hands
of lay leaders for that period.
Pre-conferences planning ses-
sions were held by pastors and
lay leaders prior to the desig-
nated day so as to insure a suc-
cessful occasion. The speakers
were selected from the laity and
all phases of the services were
conducted by members of their
group.
The organized layraen also took
~at vantage of the way” ana neid
their quarterly meeting in the
afternoon at designated points.
This afforded a fellowship session
as a climax for the day’s activi-
ties.
Bishop Anderson met with the
ministers of the Episcopal Dis-
trict at a motel out from Mont-
gomery, off I-65, Friday through
Sunday. Following an orientation
session Friday, the group was
prepared for the work of the re-
treat.
The three day teaching and
study mission was conducted by
noted author, teacher and philo-
sopher, Dr. James Cone who
suggested to 150 ministers of the
African Methodist Episcopal Church
new sacred rites and defenses
against intruders of their religious
freedom.
Continued on Page 2
Speaker Cone And Bishop Anderson
Dr. James R. Cone of N
Bishop H. I. Bearden, Prelate of land Bishop Vinton R.
the Third Episcopal District, and} Churches in the
Episcopal] Ninth District
March 29-31.
Ninth District
ew Wonk who Lave as guest lecturer
Anderson, presiding bishop of AME
who served as director for the
Ministerial retreat held here in Alabama—
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AME Ministers—Ninth District
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Dr. James R. Cone, instructor,
Union Theological Seminary,
Columbia University, New York,
lecturer and analyst for the
Ninth Episcopal District Min-
isterial retreat held Friday
through Sunday, March 29-31 at
the Ramada Inn, Highway 31,
Rorth out from Montgomery, told
the group steps to take to secure
needed publicity in projecting
their church’s program.
He used excerpts from his
three widely publicized books,
Black Theology and Black Power;
A Black Theology of Liberation
and The Spiritual and Blues for
basis of his lectures and teach-
ings. His discourse revealed, to
gain attention of the news media,
one must be able to produce in
more than one way.
Bishop V. R. Anderson, presid-
ing bishop of AME churches in
Alabama coordinated the seminar
and served as co-instructor, He
directed the periods of questions
and answers and emphasized
new communion rites which will
be presented to the 1976 general
conference for ratification. He
was jubilant over the attendence
which was more than 80 percent
of the active ministers in the
Ninth District
The Sunday noonday retreat
message was delivered by Bishop
Anderson. This was a climax to
the successful session.
This lay ministry and pastoral
teaching mission were two more
new features introduced by Bish-
op Anderson since being as-
signed to Alabama. He is also
currently in the midst of con-
ducting teaching mission sessions |
throughout the six gonferences
making up the Ninth District. |
This phase of church education |
was started in December of 1973 |
and climaxed April 26, 1974.
Mrs, Anderson, wife of the Bish-
op has instituted several
mission facets which are designed
to implement the missionary
movement in the state and to up-
date the work already being
done.
Dr. Roberts “‘Stood—
Continued from page 1
Supervisor, W. M. S. were at their
“BEST.” It really looked like a
““small General Conference.” Three
additional Bishops, one Bishop’s
wife were there also. ‘Three Gen-
eral Officers were there also; and
fifteen visitors (preachers) ,
I was very proud that I was once
a part of the Twelfth Episcopal
District (born and reared in For-
rest City, Arkansas), when 1 be-
held the great strides of Dr. B. S.
Roberts, of Tulsa. He stood “tall”
over the other visitors, something
like Saul did when he was picked
out from among other men to be
“ruler.”
I have never seen him so alert,
so compact, so comfortable, and
“so bright.” (meaning fair of com-
plexion) as in Pittsburgh. The Bish-
ops at the dinner table made him
tell his secret for being pastor of
St. John, Tulsa, So long...
In the processional line (VP),
marching into the great Alle-
gheny Banquet hall, where the
huge dinner was served, Dr. Rob-
erts sat dignified at the “Head of
the table.” He marched in just
behind Dr. R. R. Stokes, President | Georgia.
of Wilberforce University and in = Tren
front of me (The Roving Editor).
Really, the Twelfth Episcopal Dis- SUBSCRIBE
trict was well represented in Dr. TO THE
Roberts. Remember this too:
Texas’ Rev. Hercules Miles, Jr., A M E CHRISTIAN
Is “Fully Ripe” Now for AME RECORDER
Church Extension Department.
FLASH!!!
Wilberforce, Ohio — The] to be raised throughout the
devastating tornado which| church during the next four
swept through an eleven state
area on Wednesday afternoon
of April 3rd, killing over 300
persons and causing uncounted
hundreds of millions of dol-
lars damage, practically de-
stroyed the old campus of
our Wilberforce University
and Payne Theological Semi-
nary near Xenia, Ohio. While
there was no loss of life, the
shock and personal suffering
by both students and faculty
is clear for all to see.
Therefore, after a tour of
the area, today a call meeting
here of the Executive Commit-
tee of the General Board and a
special session of the Council
of Bishops of The African
Methodist Episcopal Church,
approved a request on behalf
of the General Board of Edu-
cation for an emergency drive
for $250,000.00 disaster relief
“King Center Expands
Program Into
Northern Cities”’
NEW YORK, NY. Mrs.
Coretta Scott King has announced
that The Martin Luther King,
Jr. Center for Social Change will
launch “a program of research
and action on voter registration
and citizenship education in the
North.” The plan, she said, is
designed “to help consolidate and
expand gains being made by
black people and _ progressive
coalitions in a drive to save
America’s cities.”
The new program, which will
complement the Center’s South-
ern voter registration efforts
that are already underway, was
announced during the organiza-
tion’s Fifth Annual Conference,
April 5-6 in New York.
Featured Conference speakers
included Senator Edward M.
Kennedy of Massachusetts;
Mayors Kenneth Gibson of New-
ark, Richard Hatcher of Gary,
Indiana, Howard Lee of Chapel
Hill, North Carolina, and Cole-
man Young of Detroit; John
Lewis Executive Director of the
Voter Education Project; and
Congressman Andrew Young of
weeks by appeal in the local
congregations to the members
and friends. All funds raised
will be sent to the office of the
connectional Treasury at
Washington, D.C.
It was observed that the
drive for Wilberforce, the
mother of Black Education in
America would terminate with
Mother’s Day observance.
Every Bishop will promote
the drive in his district by a
communication to each pastor
and congregation, and in such
other ways as seems most
effective.
The Alumni _ Association,
University Board of Trustees,
Office of Development, and
Friends of Wilberforce are
conducting meanwhile a ma-
jor campaign for substantial
funds for the replacing of
buildings desroyed by the storm.
A. M, E, CHRISTIAN RECORDER
Aiding The Kindergarten Teaching In
The Church School
RELIGIOUS EDUCATION
THE CHURCH AND
THE PASTOR
(Part One)
By MYRLE M. RUSH
fhe primary educational activ-
of the local parish the
church school. Through its wor-
ship and classes, it provides a cur-
riculum for the interpretation and
evaluation of experience within a
group relationship that meets the
needs of its members for love and
acceptance, law and discipline,
freedom to grow, and the aware-
ness of the working of God,
A school of the church is part
of the total congregation, experi-
encing the life of the redemptive
community for all of its members.
Curriculum development is pro-
viding many fine resources for all
ages. When the problem is seen
ity is
new | in radically different terms, avoid-
ing the issue of graded content
and interesting methods except as
secondary factors, and the em-
phasis is placed on the relevance
The A.M-E. Church—
Continued from page 1
lished and maintained by Negroes
in most of the southern states.
4. The A.M.E. Church was the
first Negro institution to become
actually concerned enough about
our African brothers to go over
and help them. Our missionary
efforts date back more than 150
years.
5. The A.M.E, Church was the
first Negro institution to enter
the publishing business. We
published the A.M.E. Discipline
in 1817 and the A.M.E. Hymnal
in 1818. We were the first to
publish Sunday School literature.
6. Rev. H. M. Turner, a minis-
ter in the A.M.E. Church, was
the first Negro chaplain in the
U. S. Army. He later became a
Bishop.
7. Bishop J. A, Gregg was the
first Negro elected president of
Howard University, Washington,
D. C. He did not accept the posi-
tion, choosing rather to continue
his work as a ‘church leader.
8. Bishop J. A. Gregg was the
first Negro leader selected by
the U. S. government to make a
trip to war areas of the Pacific,
North Africa, England, and the
Near East. He traveled 56,217
miles by airplane.
9. Rev. J. Russell Brown, an
A.M.E. minister, was the first
Negro chaplain in the U, S. Navy,
appointed in 1943.
10. Bishop R. R. Wright, Jr.,
has published the biggest book
ever edited and published exclu-
sive by Negroes.
11. William T. Vernon served
as Registrar of the U, S. Treasury
under the administration of
President Theodore Roosevelt. In
that position he had to sign cer-
tain paper money of the nation.
He later became a Bishop in the
AM.E. Chuggh.
12. William H. Heard served
as U. S. Minister to Liberia and
was a member of the South
Carolina ‘Legislature from 1880-
1882. He later became Bishop in
the A.M.E. Church.
13. Bishop S. L. Greene was
the first to sign the document
bringing into being the National
Council of Churches, the most
important movement in Protes-
tant cooperation the world had
ever known, November 28, 1950,
Cleveland, Ohio.
14. R. H. Cain, Senator from
South Carolina, 1877-79, was a
preacher in the A.M.E. Church.
He also served as president of
Paul Quinn College, Waco, Texas,
Elected a Bishop from South
Carolina.
15. Frederick Douglas, the
great abolitionist, attended Metro-
politan A.M.E. Church in Wash-
ington, D. C.
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the Gospel for the concerns of |
the daily living of the individual}
pupil within the fellowship of the |
a new view of curriculum |
spirit,
resources develops, God _ gives
strength and direction for living
through the channels of his grace
opened by the faith of the church,
The teacher is one of the channels,
for his or her ministry is a minis-
try of reconciliation.
Lesson materials are not mea-
| Sured primarily in content assimi-
lated, nor‘in knowledge properly
graded, but in growth in grace,
Knowledge of content, develop-
ment of Christian character, and
membership in the church ag an
institution are important when
| they are motivated by the under-
laying appeal of the Gospel itself.
When a local parish operates in
these terms, a greater responsi-
bility falls upon the pastor, for he
is pastor to the children, The min-
ister cannot evade his duty to all
the members, and this includes
the youngest as well as the oldest.
No matter how ably he dele-
gates administrative responsibility
among his assistants and lay peo-
ple, he cannot avoid the fact that
Jesus said, “You must let little
children come to me—never stop
them” (Mark 10:15, P). The child
who comes home radiant because
the pastor spoke to him or visited
his class or led his worship is in
turn a witness to the power of the
chuxch in his own home. Pastors
will find many ways of minister-
ing to children, and it is important
that we recognize the principle.
A second reason why the pastor
must be active in the church
school is that he is a man. Basil
Yeaxlee makes clear the need of
the male sex and father relation-
ship if we are to teach the deep
meaning of the Fatherhood of
God. Men should be on the staff
at every age level, including the
nursery, aS a symbol of father-
hood and as excellent teachers. If
the idea of two teachers to a class
is practical, one should almost al-
ways be a man. The pastor always
stands as a man, as a shepherd of
his flock, as a father to the family
of God. This symbolism is theo-
logically significant.
The local parish seeks to be-
come “the church” in the New
Testament sense: the life in fel-
lowship of those who have per-
sonal loyalty to Jesus Christ. Its
educational aims are always evan-
gelistic, for only by an act of
decision may one become a dis-
ciple of the Lord. As the local
parish re-enacts the Gospel story,
it is able “to fit his people for the
work of service, for building the
body of Christ, until we all attain
unity in faith, and in the knowl-
edge of the Son of God, and reach
mature manhood, and that mea-
sure of full development found in
Christ” (Eph. 4:12-13, F).
The over-all objective is “to en-
able children, young people and
adults to find their place in the
redemptive fellowship now.” A.
Victor Murray writes that it is
the church’s business to seek to
create convinced Christians to of-
fer training in worship, to give
guidance in personal religion, to
order and sustain a corporate wit-
ness before the world.
Loyalty to Christ through the
church is the goal of both Chris-
tian education and evangelism,
and it depends in the last analysis
on the decision of the individual,
a decision that cannot be coerced.
It comes by “the means of grace”.
The assumption is that the
whole Gospel is relevant to the
needs of everyone, and through
what we have called “the lan-
guage of relationships” it is pos-
sible for God to work in human
community, and especially
through the home and church, to
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Monday, May 13, 1974
our essential problems. Therefore,
every session of a class is in-
volved in the understanding of
the ultimate meanings of life as
these meanings help to overcome
the threat to one’s existence as a
person,
Lesson materials the re
learners are
assisted and guided in appreciat-
ing the meanings in their lives,
There are specific methods thet
may be used to evaluate the
spiritual values in the life of the
congregation, such as the parish
life weekend, a parish workshop,
or special types of leadership
training. These procedures are
used to achieve specific goals, of
which the following are of par-
ticular significance in helping the
teacher in the classroom:
(1) Develop - the educational
concerns of the local congregation
so that members will see the sig-
nificance for Christian education
in every activity of parish life.
(2) Involve parents in the pro-
gram through home cooveration
and a parent’s class.
(3) Enlist teachers in terms of
their devotion as Christians and
provide the necessary skills by
means of a thorough-going leader-
ship training program. Techniques
are important but they are al-
ways secondary to the capacity
of the teacher to love the pupils
as they are because of the aware-
ness of God’s love for all man-
kind. The teachers must have the
capacity ‘to master the subject
matter as resources for life’s situ-
ations, to understand enough psy-
chology to know both his pupils
and his methods, and to work
hard at a demanding task.
(4) Evaluate the lesson ma-
terials and additional resources
in terms of the demands of the
Gospel, the capacity of the learn-
ers and the relevance of theology
for Christian living in today’s
world.
(5) Develop the program so
that there is a e6rrélation be-
tween the worship service and
the classroom.
(6) Make the best possible use
of existing space and equipment,
and purchase what is necessary
for effective teaching.
Our task is to organize and
administer a program of Chris-
tian education so that each indi-
vidual, in the light of his needs
and capacities, may grow in
Christ. j
Christianity begins with love,
and love is the’ first experience of
a new-born baby. With all his
limitations, the infant’s experi-
ence with his parents are the be-
ginnings of religion. He has no.
equipment for grasping the idea
of God, but his emotional atti-
tudes toward his mother and
father are similar to those that
mature believers have toward
God.
The traditional cradle roll ap-
proach, through keeping the child
on the list, remembrance of his
birthday, and occasional pious
leaflets for the parents, cannot
accomplish the task, and yet the
organizational idea is correct. The
cradle roll leader, through con-
tact with the home, is the most
important person in the organiza-
tion. This is the point of contact
with the church for the parents,
and therefore the cradle roll
leader has the opportunity of
bringing into the home’ the guid-
ance and information the parents
need.
Many churches are experienc-
ing a deepening concern about
infant baptism and dedication.
The grace of baptism or dedica-
tion is seen to depend to some
extent on the ministry of parents.
Instruction of parents and spon-
sors is a prerequisite to public
baptism or dedication in many
parishes of all denominations. Pri-
vate counseling by the minister,
classes for parents prior to tradi-
are
alter our lives and help us face
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“Our Pastor The
Vice Mayor Of
Eatonville Florida”
Dear Editor:
Our Beloved Pastor, Reverend T.
Pitts has been blessed again to be
elected to another position to serve
us better. We are proud of his
leadership.. He_is_now serving his
third term as an elected official
He is also Administrative Assistant
at the Wymore Vocation Technical,
also of Eatonville. St. Lawrence
members are grateful to the Bishop
Original Poem By
A. W. Hamilton
Subject—TWO PASTORATES
The Preacher went to his work
for the year,
The way seemed bright, with
nothing to fear.
He greeted his folk with a friend-
ly smile, but they said,
and Elder for giving us Reverend
Pitts. He has made tremendous
success and is loved by all. He has
won the hearts of the youth and
the respect of the adults. The
Town of Eatonville has a great
history and is still making the
way possible for those who may
come. Since coming to Eatonville
some eleven years ago, Reverend
Pitts has done much to upgrade
the spirits of all.
Each Sunday we are spiritually
fed with the Gospel, and it has
made us-aware that there is much
“We'll wait and watch his work
for a while.”
So, they sat down and watched
the poor preacher;
As he labored, as their guide
and teacher—
They folded their hands as if noth-
ing to do;
They gossiped about him and
made him feel blue.
(9 EE EES EE
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Reverend Pitts was born in Baton
Rouge, Louisiana. The son of Mr.
and Mrs. Wilbert and Rosa Lee
Pitts who now reside in Baton
Rouge. They are members of
Green’s Chapel A.M.E. Church. Our
membership has grown and is still
growing with Pastor Pitts at the
helm. It is our hope that we will
keep and support this man of God.
He has a kind word for everyone
and is always willing to talk re-
gardless who you may be. It is
also known that there are many
non-blacks who often seek his
spiritual advice. Reverend Pitts
often says, “I will always be an
A.M.E.”
The A.M.E. Church has an asset
in the fellowship of Rev. Pitts,
and we believe that there is room
for him elsewhere. Eatonville is
a small town covering one square
mile and is 99% black. We are
inviting everyone to come to the
great sunshine state of Florida.
May God bless the Church.
Members of St. Lawrence
and
Citizens of Eatonville
And though I am sorry, but just
must say,
They forgot the salary they
promised to pay. |
And the poor old preacher, who
told them of heaven;
Had to do manual labor to eek
out a living.
They also forgot—though repeat-
edly told,
That God called the preacher to
guard their souls.
Let us right here again be told,
that the Lord says,
“Shepherd, Lead my fold.”
At the end of the year, they said,
“Our preacher’s a shirk;
Please send us one who'll do
better work.”
The preacher—sent on to another
new place, said to himself
“New burdens to face.”
But the church folk met him, with
clasp of the hand;
And said to each other; “Don’t
you think he’s grand?” 4
They paid a nice salary, a great
consolation
They showered, he and family
with splendid donations.
They stood by his side, never let
him feel blue;
They were always ready, their
duty to do.
Now, I need not tell you in prose
or in rhyme;
The work of the preacher and
people went fine.
At the close of the year they
said—“He’s a dear
We hope he’ll remain with us
many a year.”
You know he remained, and may
I say,
The work’s growing better and
better each day.
The moral I’ll give you—church
folk just now;
You can cheer up your Pastor
or wrinkle his brow.
If you feel just now that your
preacher’s a shirk;
It’s because you won’t help him
do better work.
If all work together, each doing
his or her part;
You'll help bring cheer to your
humble Preacher’s heart.
Try to pay him a salary at least
as large as you get,
Any one can do better when
free from fret.
And pray for him too, that’s meet
and right,
Your troubles have caused him
restless nights,
He needs you, so pray with your
might,
And remember this
wherever you wander
Never join with any in gossiping
slander
And I feel reasonably sure you
with others will say—
“Our preacher’s a dear we hope,
he’ll remain with us many a
year.”
A. H. Hamilton, 2126 Isleta Blvd.,
S.W., Albuquerque, N. M. 87105
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an invitation to all concerned in-
| dividuals to join and support this
| program,
Among the youth services plan-
| ned are the following:
a. Numerous scholarship grants
(merit scholarships and talent con-
tests); b. Free “widening horizon
tours”; c, Assistance to physically
handicapped youth; d. Assistance
to talented youth (in the fine arts);
e. Referral services for youth in
need; f. Career guidance; g. Group
instruction in choral music and
drama; h, Youth recreational ser-
vice through camping experiences;
i. Leadership training classes for
youth desiring credit points for
cumulative service and cumulative
study toward their rite of ‘passage
ceremony into adulthood; j. Re-
volving Loans for youth in need;
k. Service Council “Big Brother
Sister” Help Activities.
This announcement is an invita-
tion for every A.M.E, Local Church
Family to volunteer and promote
a DMC Membership Campaign 8
week only.
Annual Membership Fee Cate-
gories are:
Patron Memberships, $3.00 year-
ly; Booster Memberships, $10.00
yearly; Organization Memberships,
$10.00 yearly; Sponsor’s Member-
ships, $25.00 yearly; Business Mem-
berships, $25.00 yearly. Enroll to-
day as a group or as an individual
helper.
Church will receive as a share
benefit one-half of their total fi-
nance collected during the Cam-
paign. All persons joining receive
a free gift.
Membership Campaign is for 8
weeks only.
Christian Debutant-Master Com-
mission — Mrs. Julma B. Crawford,
Administrator, 1744 E. 73rd Place,
Chicago, Illinois 60649.
$3.00 GIFTS — A CATEGORY
(1) Small China Standing Plaques
with Lord’s Prayer on Decorated
Easel; (2) Small China Standing
Plaques with Ten Commandments
on Decorated Easel; (3) Set of
Golden Legacy Black History Car-
toon Magazines (3 in Set); (4) Mer-
ry Christmas Holly Plaque; (5)
Plastic Lace Table Cover with
Liner; (6) Praying Hands Salt and
Pepper Shakers (Gold Colored);
(7) Black History Book (Paper
Back); (8) Religious and Holiday
Napkins (2 pkgs.) or (5 doz.); (9)
“Good News For Modern Man”
(New Testament); (10) “A Church
Member’s Guide” by J. A. Dames
(A.M.E.); (11) “Know Your Church”
by Andrew White (A.M.E.).
$10.00 GIFTS — B CATEGORY
(1) Decorated 18K Gold Trim
China all Plate with Jesus Knock-
ing at the Door; (2) Decorated 18K
Gold Trim China Wall Plate with
Lord’s Supper; (3) (Hard Back)
Black History Book; (4) Chinese
Pagoda Wind Chimes; (5) Scenic
Plastic State Place Mats (6) (Re-
versible); (6) Iridescent “Bird In
Flight” Mobile Centerpiece; (7)
AME. Discipline—1972; (8) A.M.E.
Hymnal; (9) Living Bible Para-
phrased; (10) The Bible, Revised
Standard Version; (11) New Testa-
ment and Psalms—King James Ver-
sion (enlarged print).
A GIFT FOR YOU
All persons who become Group
3 members of the Connectional
H. E. L. P. Committee (Humani-
tarian Ecumenical Leadership Prep-
aration) of the A.M.E. Debutante-
Master Commission may choose an
appreciation gift from the 40 selec-
tions listed below. A gift certificate,
picture catalogue and instructions
will be mailed to you immediately
upon receipt of your membership
fee.
GROUP THREE MEMFERSHIP
FEES ARE:
Sponsor Membership — $25.00
Business Membership — $25.00
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A. M. E. CHRISTIAN RECORDER
Monday, May 13, 1974
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF
AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH
Eat TO eRe I-A. L
THE CHRISTIAN RECORDER BELIEVES
OUR MOTTO: Come, Let Us Reason Together
® In the essential worth and dignity of every human soul.
® In the ultimate destiny of man as good.
® That merit should be an unfailing measuring of a man.
® That freedom is more precious than life.
® That the self-revelation of God is an un-ending process.
® Tnat understanding is the balance wheel of human progress.
® That man can escape. the prison. walls of hate and go on to scale
the limit-less heights.
_— CC ra
é EDITORIAL OFFICES
Rev. A. Lewis Williams
Rev. Clement Fugh .....
Mrs. Ruth Hill Jones
Mr. J. W. Yancy, I1 .....
Rev. E. Paul Beavers
Rev. T. E. Cobbs ......
Mr. E. P. Wallace .
Mr. H. L. Felix ....
Mrs. Myrtice Goree
Mr. H. H. Kenner .
Mrs. Thelma A. Willls
pg Se Lye a Sanco eRe AY, arse ol cee 20
Associate Editor
Consulting Editor
_The Roving Editor
Contributing Editor
Religious Lit. Editor
.Laymen’s Editor
Special Editor
.. Special Editor
jpecial Correspondent
..Consultant
EDITORIAL
LET US PREACH CHRIST
In these Watergate days, hard on the heels of the ‘black
power’ days, there is a great temptation for us who preach
Contributing Editor ;
to black folk to take our text from the headlines of the morn-
ing papers. This temptation, we must fight down and repress
it at all cost.
We cannot afford now to stop preaching the gospel of
the Lord Jesus to fool around with some temporary situa-
tions that came up in the night and will disappear in the
night.
This is the time for us to preach Christ as never before.
For He is the antidote to all of the poison that comes forth
to overwhelm the church of the living God.
Of course, these timely topics will get some attention.
They have come upon us to emphasize the trashiness of the
flesh.
‘Let us learn that lesson, but then by all means let us
establish the permanence of the word of God. We should
never leave the old fashion text-taking Bible preaching.
The people in our pews are hungering and thirsting
for the word of God.
One pastor told me that his people seemed unwilling
to listen to him preach on black power every Sunday, and I
told him that I did not blame his congregation, for not want-
ing to listen to black power every Sunday. |
‘“There’s only one subject that can interest a congregation |
week after week. And that subject is Jesus. They never get
tired of hearing about him. His life, His death, His glorious
ressurection. They revel in all of the story and especially
about the part of his coming again and setting his own house
in order.
So let’s preach the gospel, brethren, we can depend upon
our radio and TV commentators to fill us in on all of the
lesser matters. But if we cease to preach Christ then pray tell
who is going to preach him. It’s our job, and let us do it.
Here and there some of our brethern may feel that they
have about run out of preaching materials. Their congrega-
tions have heard all of their sermons over and over and the
pastor hasn’t been able to get anything new to say. Don’t
feel that way. We all have our limitations. There is a bottom
to every well. Even the statesmen, including the President of
the United States and all of the big people in public life.
They have to rely upon ghost writers and speech bureaus to
furnish them with speeches and addresses and there’s noth-
ing wrong with that.
There are such sources for preaches. None of us know
everything, so go right ahead and borrow from the books, and
there are lots of books that the people haven’t read and the
preachers haven’t read. They got good preaching material
and all that it needs is re-preaching.
Continued on Page 5
P A G E|From The Desk Of H. A. Belin, Jr.,
Secretary-Treasurer, A. M. E. Sunday School Union
414 Eighth Avenue South, Nashville, Tenn.
", «A Treasure Going Unclaimed”
H. A. BELIN, JR.
The A.M.E. Hymnal takes
second place to no other book
of literature as an authoritative,
songful voice of African Method-
ism,
Increasingly, the number of
A.MLE.’s throughout the Connec-
tion are becoming aware of this
is growing.
We know this pleasant reality
by the relative heavy mailings of
personalized hymnals we are
monogramming here at the Sun-
day School Union at the request
of members who want “their”
A.M.E. Hymnal to bear their
names.
The name lettering is in gold,
but the hymnal colorings are in
red, green and white .. . They
will go to church with their
owners ... be proudly displayed
in the home libraries .. . be car-
ried in many instances to annual
conferences by their owners. . , .
Tell the world that the person
carrying one of these handsome
volumes is an informed partici-
pating A.M.E. and proud
of it,
There’s much to be proud of
. where else but in an A.M.E.
Hymnal can a member learn:
, of immersion,
“Let every adult person, and
the parents of every child to be
baptized, have their choice either
sprinkling, or
pouring. But in no case shall our
ministers re-baptize any person.
| And if any knowingly violate
this prohibition, he shall be sub-
ject to suspension or location as
the Annual Conference may
_ judge,”
“We will on no account what-
ever make a charge for ad-
ministering baptism, or for bury-
ing the dead.”
The hymnal so _ instructs
A.M.E.’s on the “Baptisf of In-
fants: ec. «OL in, Song we
learn:
“My Father is rich in houses and
lands,
He holdeth the wealth of the
world in His hands!
Of rubies and diamonds, of silver
and gold, His coffers are full,
He has riches untold.” (From the
Hymn, My Father is Rich, p.
84).
A writer on “Methodist Hym-
nody” in 1892 (p. 545 in the
A.M.E. Hymnal) tells us:
“|. . The Church is the standard
by which we are gauged; it Jis
doctrinal, core and_ centre,
around which we all build our
denominational loyalty and
Christian devotion . . .”
More and more members of
our Church are coming to realize
this as they acquire personalized
volumes of the A.M.E, Hymnal.
Here’s just a brief glance at a
few of the many names being
imprinted:
Daisy Brunson, Mr. Emanuel
Byrd, Moses Levy, Jr., Joe and
|Best, Mr. Albert Brookfield, Sr.,
Barbara Ann Brock .. .
There are many more... an
_.. This is not to say that only
members who acquire personal-
ized hymnals are
that there’s perhaps a treasure
going unclaimed .. .
POE
“NOTICE OF \
JUDICIAL COUNCIL MEETING”
The Judicial Council of the A. M. E. Church will convene
in Washington, D. C. May 20th through May 24, 1974.
AGE
NDA
May 20, 1974
8:00 p.m.
Executive Session
Opening Devotions
Reading of Minutes
Presidential Remarks
Adjournment
Committee Assignments
Committee Reports
New Business
May 21, 1974
9:30 a.m.
Hearing
The purpose of this hearing is to interpret the law
pertaining to Youth representation at the General
Conference of 1976.
1:00 p.m.
2:30 p.m.
9:30 a.m.
May 22, 1974
Lunch Recess
Hearing Continued
Hearing Continued
May 23, 1974
9:30 a.m.
Hearing Continued, if necessary
May 24, 1974
9:30 a.m
Summary of findings is expected to be available.
12:00 p.m.
Adjournment
TN
|Rose Lee Hilton, Mr. Willard|
“The Church Of
My Choice”
A Sermon by
Chaplain Carroll R. Chambliss
TEXT: “He shall feed His flock
like a Shepherd, He will gather
the lambs in His arms, He will
carry them in His bosom, and
gently lead those that are with
young” Isaiah 40:11
THEME: “A Game of Inches”
“Feeding the Flock of God” is
without contradiction a most re-
warding service. Kept on the high
plane of social interaction leading
to Redemptive encounter, the im-
pact of such an awesome mission
cannot be stunted or degraded.
That is the position of strength
from which I speak, from which
I work and from which I seek
continuously to serve as a Minis-
ter of God in Uniform for my
Church and Country. NO, this is
not Chaplain Anniversary Sunday
and it’s not my birthday celebra-
tion or any other special occasion,
I am simply responding to several
articles and books written recent-
ly on the viability of the Chap-
laincy. Should it be continued or
drastically altered? Civilianized or
elle,
CARROLL R. CHAMBLISS.
declared a hopeless example of
fambiguities that keep everyone it
seeks to serve off stride, confused,
and befuddled. In short, it is my
truly good] answer to those who ask, “How
Only to suggest! can you be a Clergyman and jus-
tify being in the Armed Forces?”
My answer, of course, is em-
bodied in the Sermon Title. At
best, it is a game of inches. Grant-
ed, there are narrow trailways
and close corners that a Clergy-
man in Uniform inescapably must
blaze and turn lest he miss the
Kingdom’s goal. But it is one that
I say, must be attempted by the
forth-right and fearless follower
of the Divine Unction if certain
unexplored crevices of God's vine-
yard are to be visited and the
message of salvation left for the
people there to feed upon to their
soul’s satisfaction. It is my solemn
prediction this need will go on in
similar fashion for the immediate
future to be sure, and the rest of
the century I’m reasonable cer-
tain.
As I read and digest the thrust
of those who would see the Chap-
lainey defunked or disbanded, I
cannot help observing a streak of
jealousy on the part of those who
attack it because we are privy to
a peculiar kind of accessibility to
both power structure and personal
need that every civilian Pastor
dreams about. And may I quickly
inject, that is precisely why those
of us inside the structure must
scrupulously guard the privilege
we have of serving “All of the
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Monday, May 13, 1974
You Are Invited To A Connectional Christian
Education Conference And Institute On
Aging And The Black Aged
Spenseored by The
AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH
Division of Christian Education,
Andrew White, Executive Secretary
and the Office of
Urban Ministries and Ecumenical Relations,
Bishop F. D. Jordan, Director
Co-sponsored by
American Association of Retired Persons/
National Retired Teachers Assn.
and
The National Caucus on the Black Aged
JUNE 25-28, 1974 — SHERATON JEFFERSON HOTEL,
St. Louis, Mo.
Bishop Harrison J. Bryant, Host
Bishop R. A. Hildebrand, Chairman General Board of Education
Rev. C. Garnett Henning, General Chairman
Mr. E. P. Wallace, Assistant Chairman
Rev. Cecil W. Howard, Local Host
Rev. James H. Oxley, Local Host
—to describe the life situation
citizens.
aged citizens.
sons across their entire life
which will relate all of us to each
To assure a place for yourself
The Theme of this Conference is AGING AND THE BLACK AGED
The participants will be INTERGENERATIONAL, with the spot-
light focused on older adults.
Some of the goals of this Conference are
— to encourage local churches to become service agencies
for meeting the needs and satisfying the interests of our
—to lift to a level of awareness the fact that the church
is concerned about the well-being and welfare of all per-
—to explore ways for youth and adults to form lifelong
companionships and partnerships based on understanding,
appreciation and sincere love.
SPECIAL SMPHASIS
Since we are all aging, we must deliberately, consciously and
carefully plan to perfect a total INTERGENERATIONAL mix
please contact today the — DIVISION OF CHRISTIAN EDUCA-
TION, 414 8th Ave., S., S., Nashville, Tenn. 37203. Special economy
hotel rates available to all registered participants.
of the no-longer-young Black
span.
other across our entire life span.
in this significant conferen¢e,
News From The Northwest Conference—
Lubbock District
Rev. Leon McNeil,
Presiding Elder
Presiding Elder Leon McNeil
along with Pastors, Missionary
Presidents, and Lay Workers
met at Greater St. Luke, Mid-
land, Texas, February 28, 1974,
at 10:00 A.M. for the purpose of
reporting Budget Money and
Insurance for Elders and Pas-
tors. This meeting was called in
order that the Presiding Elder
could prepare his Mid-Year An-
nual Report for reporting at the
Waco Meeting which was held
March 5-6th.
The Northwest Conference
gave an excellent report which
was one-hundred percent in their
obligation for the meeting. The
Conference reported $15,000.00.
The Presiding Elder who is a
capable leader of the Conference
in the Lubbock District, pastors
and missionaries work together
harmoniously. Each year and
‘each meeting is a year and meet-
ing with many successes. ; ‘\,
The Lubbock District Confer-
ence and Institute of the African
Methodist Episcopal Church will
convene at Allen’s Chapel,
Snyder, Texas, April, 10th and
11th, 1974, with Presiding Elder
Leon McNeil Presiding, and Rev.
Floyd Green serving as host pas-
tor. A welcoming program will
precede the general meeting on
the night of April, 9th, by the
host pastor and _ congregation.
The District Theme for the
Conference and Institute is:
Stewardship and Mission of the
Church. The district institute
committee which is composed of
Rey. Leon McNeil, Rev. N. H.
Franklin, Rev. A. W. Wilson, Mrs.
Ola Riggins, Mrs. Faye Richard-
son, Rev. J, L. Woodfaulk, Mrs.
Ora Cox, Rev. V. T. Herron and
Mrs. A. W. Wilson, has planned
an interesting meeting for the
occasion.
The Rev, N. H. Franklin, Pas-
tor of Johnson Chapel, Odessa,
Texas, will preside at the
Wednesday morning Worship
Service. Rev. W. G. Gilbert, pas-
tor of Baker’s Chapel, Big
Spring, Texas will word the In-
vocation. Rev. N. H, Franklin
will introduce the speaker of the
hour; The Rev. Leon McNeil,
Presiding Elder of the Lubbock
District will deliver the sermon:
Invitation To Christian Dis-
cipleship. After which, Holy
Communion will be administered
by the Presiding Elder and
Ministers of the district.
The financial report from
churches and district workers
will be given after the morning
services. Each district worker is
asked to report $7.00.
The District Institute group
meetings which begins at 3:00
P.M. will continue to center
their thoughts on the dis-
trict institute theme: Steward-
ship. 3:00-3:45, The Rev. N. H.
Franklin, will lead the discus-
sion on the Concept of Steward-
ship. 4:00-4:45, Rev. J, L. Wood-
faulk will lead the discussion on,
Basic Principles of Stewardship.
5:00-5:30, Rev. W. O. Johnson,
will lead the discussion on: A
Christian Response to Steward-
ship.
Wednesday evening, beginning
7:30 P.M, the Missionary Sisters
from the various churches will
present: The Night In White
with Mrs. N. L. Graham, district
missionary presiding. Mrs. Ven-
ora Williams, assistant will intro-
duce the visiting presidents and
Societies. The Night In White
Program will be of a Variety Na-
ture of Christian Devotion, Love
and Understanding.
On Thursdey morning begin-
A. M. E. CHRISTIAN RECORDER
ning 10:00 Rev, V. T. Herron,
pastor of Greater St. Luke, Mid-
land, Texas, will discuss Mission
of The Church. 11:10 to 11:50,
the Rev, Floyd Green, host pas-|)
tor and Rev. W. G. Gilbert, pastor
of Baker’s Chapel, Big Spring,
Texas will discuss The Great
Commission. The Thursday Noon
Services will be highlighted with
The Hour of Power. Rev, A. W.
Wilson, pastor of Bethel A.M,E,,
Lubbock, Texas will deliver the
sermon.
The afternoon discussion meet-
ing will be led by Rev. Sister O.
V. Harris who will discuss Pro-
moting and Cultivating Christian
Stewardship. Brother O. B. Wil-
liams will discuss Duties of
Stewards In the Church. Brother
B. L. Alexander will discuss
Laymen’s Work in the Church.
Mrs, Mary Young, District
Stewardess will discuss The
Duties of Stewardess in the
Church.
The meeting wil) conclude
with a Staff Meeting conducted
by the Presiding Elder, Rev.
Leon McNeil.
Naomi L. Graham, Reporter
Northwest Texas District
Rev. Leon McNeil, Presiding
Elder, Lubbock District
Negro History Week—
The new nation of Ghana is
named after a mighty kingdom
that flourished from the early
part of the Christian Era for
about 1,000 years, At one time
it had an army of 200,000.
Five thousand Negroes fought
in the Revolutionary War. Two
Negroes accompained George
Washington at the crossing of
the Delaware River, Christmas
1776, Robert Rilliurex, a Negro
from New Orleans, invented an
evaporating pan that revolution-
ized the refining of raw sugar in
the 1840’s, establishing the prin-
ciples of industrial evaporation.
Of the 21 raiders with John
Brown at Harper’s Ferry on
October 16, 1859, five were
Negroes; two were killed, twe
were executed and one escaped.
In 1862 a confederate gunboat
was captured by a group of
Negro slaves and piloted to the
union command off Charleston in
one of the most dramatic naval
exploits of the Civil War.
A Negro, P. B. S. Pinchback,
was governor of Louisiana for 43
days to fill out the term of the
previous governor, immediately
following the Civil War. The
first successful operation on hu-
man heart was performed by a
Negro surgeon, Dr. Daniel Hale
Williams in 1893, an instructor of
Anatomy at Northwestern Uni-
versity,
The great American naturalist
and painter, John Audubon was
born in Haiti. His mother was
a Haitian Creole and his father a
French Admiral.
Dr. George Washington Car-
ver, born of slave parents, was
20 years old before he could read
or write, became one of the
greatest leaders in the field of
agricultural science.
Twenty-four thousand Negroes
served in the U. S, Merchant
Marines in World War II; 4
Negro captains commanded Lib-
erty ship with mixed crews.
Richard Allen was the first
ordained preacher of color in
America, in 1799. In 1816 with 15
ministers and laymen he organ-
ized the African Methodist Epis-
copal Church as a connection,
because of segregation.
They will make a pilgrimage
to the mother church of Africian
Methodism Mother Bethel, at
6th and Lombard streets, Phila-
delphia, Pennsylvania.
These are the names of the 16
men, who organized and founded
the African Methodist Episcopal
Church, April 9, 1816. They are
as follows:
PAGE FIVE
SRR
Notice! Look What's Coming
At the request of the Council of Bishops the Financial Depart
ment, with assistance from the Christian Recorder, will publish
a complete booklet entitled:
WHO'S WHO IN THE OUTREACH OF LOVE PROGRAM
This booklet will be ready for distribution at the June meeting
of the Couneil of Bishops to be held in Jacksonville, Florida. All
Friends, Members, Sponsors, Patrons, Saints, Disciples and Apos
tles will be enumerated as per district.
All contributions to this great booklet must be in the Financtal
Department offce no later than May 20, 1974,
This will be a history making document, It wil] show who gave
when the Church really needed to call on every member for a
special cause. Your name will be among those who
GAVE—BECAUSE YOU CARED.
And Thanks in Big Letters to ali who gave.
Joseph C. McKinney
Treasurer
LET US PREACH CHRIST
Continued from Page 4
Don’t be ashamed to go
right in there and re-preach
Spurgson and re-preach Moody. But be fair with the folk
and tell them that you’re borrowing from the great preachers
from the past. They haven’t heard this and they would be
glad to hear it, so go right ahead and preach from the great
books that are open in all of the libraries to all of the
preachers who care to go down and get the books. For you
gifted ones of course, there’s enough preaching matter in the
sixty-six Canonical books of the Bible to last you one life-
time.
We must remember that
our congregations deserve the
best and if we haven’t got the best I suggest that we go and
get the best. One good source of preaching materials is to
listen to the sermons that you hear on the radio. They’re
preaching all day long and half of the night on so many sta-
tions across the country. If you make a habit of listening
to them you can earily fill your little barrel from what the_
brethren are saying on the airwaves. A lot of it you will
disagree with, and that is good. For then you can go before
your congregation and tell them about your disagreement
with the noted preachers and then you can fill them in with
what you have found in the scriptures for yourself. Take
them behind the scenes, let them see your research. They will
be so proud of you to know that you are an independent
thinker and can dig up the stuff for yourself inspired by the
word of God, of course.
There’s always that special sermon that pastors must
prepare and preach in their parishes. The Baccalaurette ser-
mon to the graduating class and the sermon to the Masonite
Order. And the sermon to the Ministerial Union, al! of these
special sermons the pastor must prepare and preach. As
busy as many pastors are these days they can’t find the time
for the necessary research to get the material together. He’s
ready to deliver it, if he could only get it together. What
you ought to do about that is find a resource person, or a
bureau that will do the research for you and send you the
material all beat out and put
together so that you may put
it on your desk and blue pencil the part that you don’t
want and read what’s left. This is not too difficult to do and
if you want to get in touch with the good bureaus that can
do this for you, just give the Christian Recorder a buzz and
they will get you in touch with the proper people who have
a passion for anonymity. And they will fix it for you, and
no one will ever know they fixed it, because if they were
blabber-mouths, they would loose all of the business.
Finally, brethren keep the congregation in mind. You
are theirs to enrich their spiritual life. Do not limit them
by your own limitations. Use the information that is available,
that you have and that which you must get from somewhere |
else. And by all means have other good preachers to come
in and enrich your congregation by the light that they have
seen from God’s holy hills. These preachers will return the
courtesy and you will get an opportunity to share with other
congregations than your own, the great store of information
and inspiration that you have garnered throughout your use-
ful life.
a
Richard Allen, Jacob Tofisico,
Clayton Durham, James Cham-
pion, Thomas Webster—of Phila-
deélphia, Daniel Cofier, Richard
Williams, Henry Harden, Stephen
los Gillard — Baltimore, Md.,
Peter Spencer Wilmington
Delaware, Jacob Morsh, Edward
Jackson, William Anderson
Attleborough, Pa, and Reuben
Hill, Edward ‘Williamson, Nicho- Cuff—Salem, N. Y.
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All Roads Lead to Indianapolis!
4th EPISCOPAL DISTRICT
CHRISTIAN EDUCATION CONGRESS
July 16-19, 1974
FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Write or Call
JUANITA JOHNSON, General Chairperson
9818 S. Rhodes, Chicago, Ill. (812) 785-1958
J. S.-BENN III, Chrm. Local Commission
4709 Capitol Avenue, Indpls., Ind. (817) 251-4777
Leonard N. Williams, Chrm. Souvenir Program
8912 Washington Blvd., Indpls., Ind. (817) 288-1329
Rt. Rev. H. Thomas Primm, Bishop,
Supervisor
Edythe M. Primm,
“United in Christ-Expose-Explore-Involve
Impeachment and
Busing
By VERNON E. JORDAN, JR.
The President, in a desperate at-
tempt to preserve the votes of
conservative Senators, has taken a
sharp rightward turn in his do-
mestic policies, and that could
spell serious trouble ahead for
black people and poor people.
The most recent indication was
the use of that old whipping-boy,
busing, in the President’s national-
ly broadcast radio address on edu-
cation policy.
From the start, busing has been
a “phony” issue, a means of ma-
nipulating emotions rather than
making it work as a vehicle for
quality, integrated education.
Busing has been used, often in
a minimal way, as a last resort to
replace segregated school attend-
ance patterns that violate the con-
stitutional rights of minority chil-
dren. :
To the extent that it has been
tried with full community partici-
pation, it has worked. The U. Ss.
Commission on Civil Rights has
documented the way a number of
cities have overcome initial op-
position to busing with the result
that there has been a marked im-
provement in educational oppor-
tunities in those cities.
Opposition to busing is based
on emotional responses grounded
in racial feelings. It is an attempt
to roll the clock back to officially-
imposed segregation. Words like
“busing,” and terms like “neigh-
borhood schools” are screens be-
hind which lurk the real intention
to deny to black children their
right to integrated education.
The relentless march of judicial
decisions in favor of busing as one
means of fulfilling the constitu-
tional mandate to desegregate is
an indication that the courts are
fulfilling their responsibilities. Can
the President do less?
Instead of providing the moral
leadership on this issue, he has
used what is left of the prestige of
his office to launch an assault on
the constitutional rights of minori-
ties By backing anti-busing legis-
lation he is lending support to an
unconstitutional attempt to over-
ride court decisions and to an in-
evitable constitutional confronta-
tion between the Congress and the
judiciary.
And his use of emotional lan-
guage, such as “excessive forced
busing” to describe a situation that
is neither excessive nor forced can
only deepen racial antagonisms.
It seems to me that this nation
has enough constitutional confron-
tations and enough racial divisions
to last a lifetime. By propelling
back into the limelight, the Presi-
dent has taken an issue now be-
fore the courts and has used it
to increase national tensions.
Continuea on Page 7
National Conference
For Church And
Synagogue Libraries
A national conference for all
persons interested in church and
synagogue libraries will be held
in Boston, Massachusetts, June
23-25, on the campus of Sim-
mons College.
The purpose of the meeting is
to offer practical guidance for
volunteers organizing and op-
erating such libraries.
The conference is sponsored by
the Church and Synagogue Li-
brary in 1967 to encourage and
aid the development of improved
library service for local congre-
gations.
The theme of the conference is
“The Freedom Trail through
Books”. The chairman is Mr.
Murray Touchman, Librarian,
Hebrew College, Brookline, Mas-
sachusetts and First Vice-Presi-
dent of CSLA. Working with Mr.
Tuchman are Mrs. Sylvia Shul-
man, formerly president of the
New England Jewish Library
‘Association, in charge of local
arrangements: Mrs. Virginia
Leach, Librarian, Episcopal
Theological Schodl, providing
hospitality; Arthur Goldsmith,
Vice-President of Jarrow Press,
in charge of exhibits; and Mrs.
Elizabeth Halbrooks of The Horn
Book, Inc., publicity.
The program will start with a
General Session Sunday after-
noon, June 23. A symposium will
be held on “Why we have a na-
tional association and what are
its duties and responsibilities?”
The General Session will be
followed by workshops: “Re-
sources in the Community”,
“How to Answer Reference Ques-
tions”, “Library Publicity”, and
“Planning Workshops”.
The dinner speaker Sunday
will be Robert C. Dvorak Li-
brarian, Gordon-Conwell Theolo-
gical Seminary, Hamilton, Massa-
chusetts. Mr. Dvorak will speak
about the support a_ college
theological library can give to
local congregations. The Presi-
dent’s Reception will follow.
More workshops are planned
for Monday morning, June 24, in-
cluding “Starting a Library”,
“Book Selection”, “Book Care
and Repair”, and “Children’s
Books”. The afternoon will be
given over to literary and cul-
tural tours of Boston and visits
to church and synagogue li-
braries,
The dinner speaker on Monday
will be Rabbi William G. Braude
of Temple Beth El in Providence,
Rhode Island, his subject:
“Faces of God”.
Tuesday morning, June 25, will
be devoted to workshops on such
subjects as ‘Beginning Cata-
loging”, “Audiovisual Materials”,
and “How to Write a Book Re-
view”.
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| Aiding The Kindergarten
Continued from Page 2 |
tional days for public baptism,
and a pastoral follow-up by the
minister and cradle roll leader}
have become normal procedure, In|
some cases lay people have been
trained as leaders in this pro-
gram, doing the home counseling,
teaching the parents’ classes, and
following up during the next sey-
eral years.
Sometimes before he reaches
four, and perhaps as young as
two, the child will begin attend-
ing church school, He may ac-
company his parents, attend the
family service very briefly, and
then go to his class. He may arrive
with his parents and go directly
to his own room, meeting with
them again at the close of the
session. His parents may see that
he gets to the church or send him
with friends.
As with the nursery child, ade-
quate physical facilities are es-
sential for the four or five year
old. He learns through activity,
and the equipment should provide
concrete ways of learning. A visit
to a public school kindergarten
will show what furnishings, toys,
and other items are essential.
Kindergarten is an experience in
group living.
Most important is the guidance
in worship that they receive
while they are worshiping. This
will come partly from the teacher
before and after the service, but
chiefly from the example of the
teacher during worship, and the
basic guidance from the pastor
or other leader during the serv-
ice. Chiefly, the children need to
feel at home in church, to know
that they are accepted, to under-
stand how things are done
decently and in order, and to
have the opportunity to grow in
their communion with God.
When a special service is coming
on the following Sunday, the
teacher can do much to prepare
the pupils for what to expect. He
should teach the childrtn prayers
to say after they come into the
church and before the service
begins, and at the close of the
service before they leave.
If it is taken for granted that
the pastor will lead his children
in worship, he must work
closely with the department
superintendents and teachers to
know what is happening in the
departments and classes,
In larger parishes having more
than one minister it is pos-
sible to divide the responsi-
bility; but the current practice
of assigning the church school
worship to the least experienced
member of the staff is dangerous.
Usually, younger assistants do
not stay long, so all the children
get is inexperienced leadership
and a lack of continuity. No
matter how many ministers are
on the staff and how the work is
divided, the chief minister is
chief pastor to the children.
There is no escape from this re-
sponsibility unless the pastor is
incapable of leading children in
worship, and then there is a
question about his competence to
lead anyone. When there is a di-
rector of Christian education, he
or she may help the pastor and
his assistants to gain the in-
sights they need for this impor-
tant task.
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“Wage Increase Helps
Black Economy”
Washington, D. C. (April 9,
1974) . . . In response to Presi-
dent Nixon’s recent signing of
legislation which raises the fed-
eral minimum wage to $2.00
effective May 1st and which car-
ries additional provisions for in-
crements to $2.10 in 1975 and
$2.30 in 1976, Dr. Berkeley G.
Burrell, President of the Na-
tional Business League said in an
interview for national release to
broadcasting networks:
“The seven million people who
are being minimally upgraded
by their inclusion under the law
should now be able to make a
larger contribution to the eco-
nomic viability of the areas in
which they reside.
“A healthy business can only
thrive in a healthy, economically
viable community. Black busi-
ness, unlike white business, up
until now has had to struggle in
the heart of the ghettoes of
the nation surrounded by the
people who have not had an op-
portunity to earn a living wage.
“Perhaps the floor is too low
and the steps may be construed
as being too slow, but this is a
beginning. These advantages
greatly outweigh any disad-
vantages the Black businessman | »
‘may face.”
Monday, May 13, 1974
“Cousin Gets Vote”
by W. E. DIGGS
DR, PHILLIP R. COUSIN
DURHAM, N. C. — The Eastern
District of the Western North
Carolina Conference gave Dr. Phil-
lip R. Cousin a unanimous vote of
endorsement of his candidacy for
Bishop in the church. Dr. Cousin
is the pastor of St. Joseph A.M.E.
Church, Professor of Religion at
Duke University and a respected
political leader in Durham.
The Annual Session of the Dis-
trict met at Emmanuel A.M.E,
Church, Host Pastor, J. R. Crutch-
field; Presiding Elder J. N. Sheares,
presiding. Elder Sheares and the
baseball team in San Dieguito,
affairs to help in support of this
candidate. This event was spiritual-
ly moving and inspiring to Dr.
Cousin.
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“The Church Of—
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Flock of God,” as opposed to a
segment or two in the neighbor-
hood or street where we live.
As a Chaplain, I have to be,
first of all, what I am, then I have
to be what my community needs.
This means being above, at times,
my denominational dogma. In ac-
cepting the ecclesiastical endorse- |
ment of my church I promise to
be fully an African Metohdist
Episcopalian yes, but also promise
to fulfill the needs of any brother
or sister in or out of my church
or any other church whose condi-
tion comes to the fore or in whom
I observe suffering along some
by-way, bush, or marsh— injured,
bleeding, singhing, or dying.
I, somehow, wish I could convey
some of the ground over which I
have travelled with individuals
and families during my time in
the Navy in such a way that the
critics of the Corps could feel the
indispensable need of a Sailor of
Soul-saving dedication readily
available inside the ship called
the USS NAVY. As a matter of
fact, the time is rapidly approach-
ing when I need to get together
a few autobiographical thoughts
about myself anyhow. And, when
I read that article in the Black
History issue of the Mirror on me
here at Mayport, Florida I was
made to realize that perhaps I do
have something to say that is
readable as well as enlightening.
My wife and I have been stopped
on almost every street corner
about it. I’ve alreeady decided to
call it “Change of Address” which
in itself shows how nomadic my
life has been. And yet, unlike my
own sons, I spent my entire child-
hood through high school in one
house. In fact, I believe I was
actually born in the house not in
a hospital simply because there
‘weren’t any that received my
laboring mother.
But I am distraught at some of
the theoretical-reasons-given for
abandoning the services of the
Chaplain on the part of many,
without weighing the measure of
human service that could not be
rendered otherwise. What I really
hear the would-be abolishers of
the Chaplaincy saying is it is bet-
ter to let the Flock of God die on
the vine or the waiting young
lambs to go without arms to be
carressed in or the young to go
without being gently led, than to
have a Religious symbol that
seemingly gives sanction to every-
thing contrary to Divine Law nur-
ture them.
If there were some way all of
us could escape being a part of
the world, to escape being in the
world of veil and tears, unpollut-
ed or untainted by the tempta-
tions and so-called bad influences
prevalent all around us, how
utopian that would be! I now see
clearer how the whole doctrine of
eschatalogy and other worldliness
came into man’s theological perim-
eters. It is a wish—and that is all.
The hard core truth is we live
among sinners and as Paul said
“of whom I am Chief.” We cannot
physically or psychially disasso-
ciate ourselves from the mill of
human misery which grinds and
mixes us all up through and
through. The harvest is truly plen-
teous the laborers all too few.
We cannot divorce ourselves from
the need to be instruments for
God—whether in or out of the
military, on a reservation or in
the loneliness of the desert. Wher-
ever men are, wherever human
beings reside there needs to be
someone truly commissioned, tru-
ly committed to the care and
comfort of their daily needs. And
it cannot be done half-mast, one
foot in and one foot out. As Jesus
said, “If you are neither hot nor
cold I will spew you out of my
mouth.” Down with the luke-
warmer. I need somebody who is
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anchored, who is dedicated, who
is my man on that premise mak-
ing Holy that ground upon which|
he stands. Because you can’t be
there is no reason to call all the
troops back home. “Other sheep
I have that are not of this fold,
them too I must go and shepherd.”
They will heed my voice so there
will be One Flock, One Shepherd.”
I must send those who can go,
who will go, who understand why
they art there and who never lose
sight of the mission for which I
have called them. I haven’t called
all, just them. I have called some
to be teachers, some exhorters,
some prophets, some evangelists,
some pastors. These gifts I have
given to equip the Saints for the
work of Ministry for opuilding up
the body of Christ until we all
attain to the unity of the Faith
and the Knowledge of the Son of
God, to mature manhood, to the
measure of the stature of the full-
ness of Christ. So that we may no
longer be children tossed to and
fro and carried about with every
wind of doctrine, by the cunning
of men, by their craftiness in de-
ceitful wiles.” You ought to read
Eph. 4:11-14 and get the full drift
of how God calls.
“Rather speaking the truth in
love we are to grow in every way
into him who is the Head, into
Christ, from whom the whole
body joined and knit together by
every joint with which it is sup-
plied, when each part is working
prorerly makes bodily growth
and upbuilds itself in love.”
Who among us can profess to
have the whole all to himself or
herself? What we do is take that
precious part given to us by God’s
grace and inch by inch fit it into
the larger body of Christ and do
our part in making the puzzle
complete.
“For straight is the gate and
narrow the way that leadeth unto
life and few there be that find it.”
Jesus’ way was prophesied from
the beginning as being narrow
and straight. It remans that way
even after his human life, death,
resurrection, and ascension have
occured. It is specifically designed
to go into the close corners of
man’s feeble and woeful exist-
ence, most certainly the question-
able places and exert the squeeze
play. My coaching-son Frank’s
baseball team in San Dieguito,
California won 2-1 on a squeeze
bunt on two hits early in the
season. He ate and drank with
publicans and sinners so they re-
ported on him. It is a Game of
Inches,
But what did the publicans and
sinners say of him? “Surely this
must be the Son of God.” We tend
to ask everyone except the person
it is designed to serve. Before we
throw the Chaplain out, at least
ask the people whom he serves,
not those jealous of his service.
One day he may be a Seventh-day
Adventist as I was called upon to
be this week in working with a
Religious-Preference situation on
one of our ships. Tomorrow a
Jewish need emerges, the next
day a Catholic, but always in the
knowledge that God’s grace is suf-
ficient. Always with the under-
standing that one of the lambs
needs a Shepherd. Somebody
needs strong arms or a shoulder
to sob on. Someone needs a bosom
to‘¥est upon. Someone with young
needs to be led gently.
“For when you have done it un-
to the least of these my brethren
you have truly done it unto me.”
Behold I send you out as sheep
in the midst of wolves, so be wise
as serpents and innocent as doves.
About all any’ of us can hope
for in this life is that we are kept
near the heart of God until our
traveling days are done. To be led
by him in this life so that in the
last hour, the hour of our death,
we will not feel deserted. Then I
can sing with W. L. Thompson—
Lead me gently home Father
Lead me gently home
When life’s toils are ended
And parting days have come.
Sin no more shall tempt me
Ne‘er from Thee I'll roam
If Thou only lead me Father
Lead me gently home.
Lead me gently home Father
Lead me gently home
In life’s darkest hours, Father
When life’s troubles come,
Keep my feet from wandering
Lest from Thee I roam
Lest I fall upon the wayside
Lead me gently home,
The most arresting and lasting
thing we can say about the life of
Christ during this Lenten Season
is that he endured. That he played
it God’s way. He survived the
crisis moments. He knew it was
a game of inches but he kept feed-
ing the Flock of God.
He took the scourge of men up-
on himself so God could have the
victory in the end. You and I are
expected to do no less.
This sermon was delivered in
the United States Naval Station
Chapel, Mayport, Florida on 10
March 1974.
CARROLL R. CHAMBLISS
CDR, CHC, USN
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Impeachment And—
Continued from Page 6
Just why he has chosen to play
this role is problematical, but the
most reasonable explanation is that
he is using the issue to curry favor
with legislators whose support he
will need in an impeachment trial.
It is clear that the heat is on
and that the President is in deep
trouble. The continuing conflicts
with the special prosecutor and
the House Judiciary Committee in-
vestigating grounds for impeach-
ment, the withholding of relevant
information, the missing tapes, the
possibilities of tax fraud, all com-
bine to make impeachment likely.
In that event, the President's
survival depends on his ability to
muster one-third plus one vote ih
the Senate against impeachment.
The result has been the raising of
the busing issue again, refusal to
compromise on an education bill,
dropping support for a reasonable
land-use measure, and numerous
other steps designed to win over
conservatives whose votes will be
needed to stave off impeachment.
The process also endangers
hopes for a reasonable welfare re-
form program and similar crucial
proposals affecting blacks and
minorities and all poor people. So
the fate of minorities and their
hopes for a long overdue reforms
are now enmeshed in the politics
of impeachment and the paralysis
that has afflicted the national gov-
ernment since last summer is
bound to increase.
DR. V. R. BYRD AND DR. H. RALPH JACKSON
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CAGE EIGHT
| Calendar
of Events
1973 Schedule of Annual Conferences
And Missionary Coaveatiens
FIRST EPISCOPAL DISTRICT
Bishop Ernest L. Hickman,
Presiding Bishop
THEME: “Christ Centered Living
In An Age Of Crises.”
Announcement of Annual Mis-
sionary Meetings: Mrs. Cleo-
patra Hickman, Supervisor
Annual Conference Dates: The
Missionary meeting is the first
date of the conferences dates
listed. The Y.P.D. will ineet
the Saturday before.
NEW JERSEY CONFERENCE
May 6-10, 1974
St. Luke, 148 Clinton Ave.,
Newark, N.J. 07114
Phone 201-248-0133
Rev. John G. Ragin, Pastor, 22
Shepherd Ave., Newark, N. J.
07112
Phone: 201-WA 3-0655
Rev. B. C. Burton, Host Presiding
Elder
Sermons:
Missionary—Rev. S. Lawrence
Kelly
Annual—Rev. William Cody
Men’s Night—Rev. M. D. Birt
NEW YORK CONFERENCE
May 20-24, 1974
Metropolitan 58-66 West 135th.
Street, New Yprk City
Rev. Robert L. Foley, Sr., Pastor
and St. John, N.Y.C. co-host
Rev. Leroy Judge, Pastor’
Rev. William L. Freeman, Host
Presiding Elder
Sermons:
Missionary—Rev. Simon P.
Bouie
Annual—Rey. William D.
Watley
Men’s Night—Rev. Samuel P.
Roper
NEW ENGLAND CONFERENCE
May 27-31, 1974
Bethel, Hanover and Chestnut
Sts. Fall River, Mass. 02720
Rev. Alvan N. Johnson, Pastor—
Phones: Church 617-442-9344—
265-8699
Rev. P. Bernard Walker, Host
Presiding Elder
Sermons:
Missionary—Rev. Peter Craw-
ford
Annual—Rev. Joseph F.
Whalen, Sr.
Men’s Night—Rev. Clarence
Williams
PHILADELPHIA CONFERENCE
June 3-7, 1974
Ward: 43rd. and Aspen Streets,
Phila. Pa.
Rev. H. A. Rhodes, Pastor—
336 Pelham Road, Phila, Pa. }
19119
Phone: 215-VI 3-2971—VI 3-4874
Rev. Harry J. White, Sr., Host
Presiding Elder
Sermons:
Missionary—Rev. A, L.
Stephens
Annual—Rev. J. L. Joiner
Men’s Night—Rev. H. E. Burton|,
NOON DAY SERMONS by
Episcopal Appointment
SECOND EPISCOPAL DISTRICT
Bishop Henry W. Murph.
Presiding
Spring Conferences 1974
WASHINGTON CONFERENCE
—Tuesday May 7 through Fri-
day May 10, 1974. Ward AME, | MEETING
Church, 241-42nd Street, N. E,
Washington, D.C., Rev. HL
Camper, Host Pastor, Rev. O. J.
Hayman, Host Presiding Elder.
VIRGINIA CONFERENCE
Tuesday May 21 through Friday
May 24, 1974 Bethel A.M.E.
Church, Hampton, Virginia,
Rev. R. W. Wisner, Host Pastor,
Rev. D. W. Williams, Host Pre-
siding Elder.
FIFTH EPISCOPAL DISTRICT
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
BISHOP HARRISON J. BRYANT
7419 Harrison Street
Kansas City, Mo. 64131
Tele (816) 523-2239
. PUDGET SOUND CONFERENCE
August 6th through August 9
Allen Chapel AME Church
1621 S. Sheridan Street
Tacoma, Washington 98405
Rev, Ulysses Carr, Host pastor
Tele (206) 627-6855
Rev. L. F. Greene, Host Pre-
siding Elder
. CALIFORNIA CONFERENCE
August 13 through August 16
First AME Church
4024 Lyman Rd.
Oakland, California 94602
Rey. Edward S. Foust, Host
Pastor
Tele (415) 655-1527
Rev. C. Wayne Love, Host
Presiding Elder
. SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
CONF.
August 20th through August 23
Ward Chapel AME Church
1231 St. Andrews Pl.
Los Angeles, California 90019
Rev. C. Garnett Henning,
Host Pastor
Tele (213) 732-5284
Rev. I. H. Hunt, Host Presiding
Elder
_
4, COLORADO CONFERENCE
September 10th through September
13th :
St. Paul AME Church
4 Endeavor Lane
. Pueblo, Colorado 81001
Rev. John R. Williams, Host
Pastor
Tele (303) 546-1048
Rev. E. D. Chappelle, Host
Presiding Elder
5. KANSAS-NEBRASKA CONF.
September 17th through September
20th
St. Paul AME Church
1902 N. Volustia Street
Wichita, Kansas 67214
Rev. Cyrus S. Keller, Sr.
Host Pastor
Tele (316) 683-8724
Rev. A. L. Simpson, Host Presiding
Elder
6. NORTHWEST MISSOURI CONF.
October 1st throught October
4th
Gregg Tabernacle AME Church
5811 Blue Hill Rd.
Kansas City, Missouri 64110
Rev. Joseph N. Moore, Host
Pastor
Tele (816) 361-2796
Rev. O. David Slacum, Host
Presiding Elder
MISSOURI CONFERENCE
October 8th through October
11th
Wayman Temple AME Church
5014 Cabanne Street
St. Louis, Missouri 63113
Rev. Samuel M. Pointer, Host
Pastor
Tele (314) 361-6657 or 361-4123
Rey, Harvey L. Vaughn, Host
Presiding Elder
EPISCOPAL DISTRICT PLANNING
October 12th
Wayman Temple AME Church
5014 Cabanne Street
St. Louis, Missouri 63113
A. M. E, CHRISTIAN RECORDER
Monday, May 13, 1974
1974 SCHEDULE OF ANNUAL
CONFERENCES AND
MISSIONARY CONVENTIONS
Fourth Episcopal District
The Right Reverend
Howard Thomas Primm,
ILLINOIS—103rd Annual Session
August 6-9—Campbell Chapel A.M.E, Church
August 5-6—Missionary Convention
626 East 4th Street, Tel: (618) 462-2500
Alton, IL 62002
The Rev, John Q. Owens, Jr., Pastor
Presiding
1135 Harrison Street, Tel: (618) 462-2500
Alton, IL 62002
a
INDIANA—136th Annual Session
August 13-16—Bethel A.M.E, Church
August 12-13—Missionary Convention
200 South 6th Street, Tel: (317) 962-6763
Richmond, IN, 47374
The Rev. J. P. Henning, Pastor
808 South 17th Street, Tel: (317) 962-7214
Richmond, IN. 47374
CANADIAN—91st Annual Session
Rev. T. N. Hercules, Pastor
Rev. Moses Wilson, PLE,
Res, Phone 912-264-2734
Church same
4. AUGUSTA, GEORGIA ANNUAL
CONFERENCE
May 28-31, 1974
Mt, Mariah A.M.E, Church
102 West Green St.
Swainsboro,
Rev, W. L. Powell, Pastor
Rev. S. W. Wicker, P.E.
Res, Phone 912-237-8587
Church same
Georgia 3040)
June 4-7, 1974
Allen Chapel A.M.E. Chureh
269 Pursley St.
Macon, Georgia
Rev. L. A. Townes, Pastor
Rey. E. D, Curry, P.E.
Res. Phone 912-743-6317
Church Phone 912-746-1547
ATLANTA NORTH GEORGIA ANNUAL
CONFERENCE
August 20-23—Campbell A.M.E. Church
August 19-20—Missionary Convention
20 Prince Street, South, Tel: (416) 352-7672
Chatham, Ontario
The Rev. George N. Burns, Pastor
20 Prince Street, South, Tel: (416) 352-7672
Chatham, Ontario
MICHIGAN—88th Annual Session
June 11-14, 1974
Turner Monumental A.M.E, Church
66 Howard St., N.E.
Atlanta, Georgia 30317
Rev. W. L. Reynolds, Pastor
Rev. H. C, Carswell, P.E.
Res. Phone 404-691-7054
September 10-13—St. Stephen A.M.E. Church
September 8-9—Missionary Convention
6000 Stanford Avenue, Tel: (313) 895-4800
Detroit, MI. 48221
The Rev. John H. Hunter, Pastor
3791 Fullerton Avenue, Tel: (313) 483-5245
Detroit, MI. 48238
CHICAGO—92nd Annual Session
September 17-20—St. James A.M.E. Church
September 16-17—Missionary Convention
9256 South Lafayette, Tel: (312) 785-9738
Chicago, IL. 60620
Chureh Phone 404-378-6970
WEST TENNESSEE CONFERENCE—June 25-28.
1974
St. Andrew A.M.E. Church
867 South Parkway East
Memphis, Tennessee 38106
Rev. E. M. Martin, Host Pastor
The Rev W. L. Johnson, Pastor
9318 South Rhodes Avenue, Tel: (312) 785-1958
Chicago, IL. 60619
SCHEDULE OF ANNUAL CONFERENCES
Sixth Episcopal District
The Rt. Rev. Richard Allen Hildebrand
Presiding Bishop
TENNESSEE CONFERENCE-—July 912, 1974
St. Luke A.M.E. Church
901 40th Avenue, North
Nashville, Tennessee 37209
Rev. S. J. Holley, Sr., Host Pastor
tAST TENNESSEE CONFERENCE- July 16-19, 1974
St. Paul A.M.E. Church
328 W. College Street
Fayetteville,
Tennessee 37334
Rev. Wesley | Reid, Host Pastor
1, SOUTHWEST GEORGIA ANNUAL
CONFERENCE
2,
May 7-10, 1974
St. Timothy A.M.E. Church
1219 W. Hill Avenue
Valdosta, Georgia 31601
Rev. E. O. Benefield, Pastor
Rev. O. C. Hardwick, P.E.
Res. Phone 912-244-4666
Church same
May 14-17, 1974
St. Paul A.M.E. Church
1520 Wolf St.
Brunswick, Georgia 31520
“To My Dear Partners-
In-Mission”
I greet you in the name of our
risen Lord and Saviour, for indeed,
he has called us out of darkness
into his most marvellous light. To
His name be glory forever!
As you know, the A.M.E. Chapel
of Christ Our Redeemer in Kings-
ton, Jamaica, was dedicated on
Sunday, April 28, 1974, at 4:00
pm. For all AME.s this should
be a significant occasion for finally
we will have a respectable and
representative centre of worship
in the capital city of Kingston.
I want to encourage you to come
SOUTH GEORGIA ANNUAL CONFERENCE
. OLD GEORGIA ANNUAL CONFERENCE
WEST KENTUCKY CONFERENCE—July 23-26, 1974
Asbury Chapel A.M.E. Church
1801 West Chestnut Street
Louisville, Kentucky 40212
Rev. William W. Easley, Jr., Host Pastor
es see this historic church and
spend a few days with us.
It is easy to get to Jamaica from
either the New York or Miami gate-
way. All you need is a valid US.
passport or proof of citizenship
and a small pox certificate. Ac-
commodation can be reserved for
you at the Kingston Sheraton if
you let me know ahead of time.
The Skyline and the new Pegasus
are recommended, If you need
help you can write the Rev. Con-
way M. Simmons, 15 Swallowfield
Road, Kingston 5, Jamaica, WI.
His telephone numbed is:
936-8910.
I have had to make personal
loans from three Banks amounting
KENTUCKY CONFERENCE--July 30-August 2, 1974
St. John A.M.E. Church
1209 Pradero
Frankfort, Kentucky 40601
Rev. C. D. Brice, Host Pastor
DISTRICT PLANNING COUNCII—To be announced
———————
to $16,500 in order to complete
this church building and to give
the A.M.E. Church in Jamaica a
touch of dignity. We were finally
forcéd to match our words with
positive action. If you can come,
you will be more than welcome.
If you cannot, please pray for our
efforts, and send a telegram to
15 Swallowfield Road, Kingston.
This will encourage our people
greatly.
May God bless the work com-
mitted to your care.
Your Parter-in-Mission
Frederick H. Talbot
Chief Pastor
MACON, GEORGIA ANNUAL CONFERENCE
SCHEDULE OF ANNUAL CONFERENCES
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Date
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1974-5-13
